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  • Writer's pictureKen Y. M.

卸膊 dodge responsibility

Updated: May 11, 2021


推卸責任的意思。


Literally*, the expression means ‘unload something from one's shoulder’. It means to avoid or shirk responsibility for one's actions.

  • Fearing punishment, people are likely to dodge responsibility.

  • "…… it also sounds too much like Sanders dodging responsibility for not doing more to expand his support" says Salon.


(同義詞 synonym) (成語 idiom) :


pass the buck


* Pronounced and translated verbatim :


卸[se3] means ‘to unload' and

膊[bok3] means ‘shoulder’.

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